Jane's Addiction Ready Rarities Box Set
Plus vinyl reissues of Nothing's Shocking and Ritual De Lo Habitual



For reasons that can probably all be traced back to Dave Navarro's constant shirtlessness, Jane's Addiction rarely get the respect they deserve. No Pitchfork 500 inclusion, for one! Jane's frontman Perry Farrell founded Lollapalooza. That means no Jane's, no early 90s alt-rock takeover, which means most of the people reading this would still be jamming Huey Lewis and Peabo Bryson in 2009. OK, maybe not. But still, Jane's Addiction were important!

The seminal funk-metallers have a busy 2009 coming up. This summer, they'll co-headline a tour with Nine Inch Nails. And on April 21, Rhino will release A Cabinet of Curiosities, a limited edition box set of Jane's rarities. A Cabinet of Curiosities will include three CDs and one DVD in a wooden case. Or a cabinet, some might say.

The first disc is all unreleased demos from 1986 and 1987. The second has more demos, but also unreleased live tracks and beloved rarities covers of the Grateful Dead, the Stooges, and Led Zeppelin, as well as a version of Sly and the Family Stone's "Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey" that they did with Ice-T. There's also a live song called "Bobhouse" that consists of the lyrics to Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" over the music from Bauhaus' "Burning From the Inside". See, Jane's Addiction were way ahead of the whole mashup trend, too. A recording of a December 1990 live show, meanwhile, comprises the whole third disc.

The DVD will include Soul Kiss, the notorious Jane's documentary previously unavailable on DVD. It'll also feature the "Mountain Song" video that MTV banned and various music videos and home movies.

That's not the only Jane's Addiction reissue coming out on Rhino, either. On Record Store Day, April 18, independent record stores will get Rhino's 180-gram vinyl reissues of the 1988 Jane's album Nothing's Shocking and 1990's Ritual De Lo Habitual. So yeah. Good job, Rhino.

A Cabinet of Curiosities:

Disc 1:

01 Jane Says (Radio Tokyo Demo) *
02 Pigs in Zen (Radio Tokyo Demo)
03 Mountain Song (Radio Tokyo Demo)
04 Had a Dad (Radio Tokyo Demo)
05 I Would for You (Radio Tokyo Demo)
06 Idiots Rule (Demo) *
07 Classic Girl (Demo) *
08 Up the Beach (Demo) *
09 Suffer Some (Demo) *
10 Thank You Boys (Demo) *
11 Summertime Rolls (Demo) *
12 City (Demo) *
13 Ocean Size (Demo) *
14 Stop! (Demo) *
15 Standing in the Shower ... Thinking (Demo) *
16 Ain't No Right (Demo) *
17 Three Days (Demo) *

Disc 2

01 Ted, Just Admit It... (Demo) *
02 Maceo (Demo) *
03 No One's Leaving (Demo) *
04 My Time (Rehearsal) *
05 Been Caught Stealing (12" Remix Version)
06 Ripple
07 Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey [feat. Ice-T & Ernie-C]
08 L.A. Medley: L.A. Woman/Nausea/Lexicon Devil (Live)
09 Kettle Whistle (Live) *
10 Whole Lotta Love (Live) *
11 1970 (Live) *
12 Bobhaus (Live) *

Disc 3:

01 Drum Intro (Live) *
02 Up the Beach (Live)
03 Whores (Live) *
04 1% (Live) *
05 No One's Leaving (Live)
06 Ain't No Right (Live)
07 Then She Did... (Live) *
08 Had a Dad (Live) *
09 Been Caught Stealing (Live) *
10 Three Days (Live)
11 Mountain Song (Live) *
12 Stop! (Live)
13 Summertime Rolls (Live) *
14 Ocean Size (Live) *

DVD:

Soul Kiss:

01 Mountain Song (Unedited Version)
02 City

Music videos:

03 Had a Dad
04 Ocean Size
05 Stop!
06 Been Caught Stealing
07 Classic Girl
08 Ain't No Right

Live at the City Square in Milan (for MTV Italy, October 1990)

09 Whores *
10 Then She Did... *
11 Three Days *

* previously unreleased

You know you're getting old when your favourite bands start releasing boxsets. This looks great though.

I wouldn't have thought I'd be interested in this when I saw the thread title (as big a fan of Jane's as I am), but this looks worth the box. Gotta love a box set with virtually no previously released (and easily available) material.

That's what i was thinking...also i still have/listen to their first 2 albums, so i'd be very interested in those tracks.

Disc 3 looks good.